SHAPS 15th Graduate Student Conference: Program, March 16-18, 2004

The Asia-Pacific Performance Night (APPN) is a free concert featuring music and dance from Asia and the Pacific. It takes place on Tuesday, March 16, 2004 at 7:30 pm in Orvis Auditorium of the Music Department at the University of Hawai'i (UHM) on the Manoa Campus.

The concert consists of student, faculty, and community performances ranging from Wayne Mendoza and Dr. Ric Trimillos' Southern Philippine dance and music, Dr. Byongwong Lee and Eun-Sook Kim's Korean music and dance, Kumu Hula Michael Pili Pang's Halau Hula Ka No'eau, Izumi Sato's Bharata Natyam Indian Dance, to Okinawan dance and music by Ukwanshin Kabudan Ryukyu Performing Arts Group and Indonesian dance and music by Chandra Susilo, Ben Arcangel, and Mohammad Amin.

APPN will be managed by UHM Dance alumna Jennifer Butler. It is produced by Ben Arcangel, Dr. Barbara Andaya, and the SHAPS Graduate Student Conference Committee.

This free APPN is organized by the UHM Center for Southeast Asian Studies and the School of Hawaiian, Asian and Pacific Studies (SHAPS) 2004 Graduate Student Conference. It is the opening event of the 3-day SHAPS Graduate Student Conference at the Center for Korean Studies.

Wednesday, March 17, 2004
Conference Presentations at the Center for Korean Studies, UHM

9:30 am-11:30 am (refreshments available)
Religion and Philosophy in Contemporary Society

Muhamad Ali: "The Rise of Liberal Islam Network in Contemporary Indonesia"

Margaret Bodemer: "The Tet Trung Nguyen Festival and Popular Religion in Contemporary Vietnam: Practice, Belief, and Identity"

Aloha Kekoolani: "Na'au Poi: Spiritual Food for Cultural Enlightenment"

Matthew Lopresti: "Buddhism Without Rebirth"

12:15 pm-2:15 pm Ethnicity, Gender, and Identity

Aya Kitamura: "Image, Reality, and Beyond: A Critical Analysis of Academic Discourses on Japanese Women"

Ju-Young Park: "Hwanhyangnyo, Hwanyangnyon, and Sokhwanbunyo: The Contemporary Discourses on the Brought-back Women of 17th Century Choson in the 20th Century"

Hwa Shin Lee: "The Korean Women's Diaspora Across Colonialism, Nationalism, and Globalization"

Turro Wongkaren: "The Chinese in Indonesia"

Melisa Casumbal: "Towards An Overdetermined Analysis of the OCW: Filipina Migrant Care Production and National Development"

2:30 pm-5:00 pm Development and Policy

Jennifer Dunn: "Pursuing Education in Rural Yunnan"

Mary Lee: "The Power of Representation and Reproduction: Problematizing the South Korean Development State"

Julie Rancilio: "Decolonization and Education Policy in South Korea, 1945- 1950"

Napat Settachai: "Regional Tourism Development Planning: Case Study of the Eastern Region of Thailand"

Turro Wongkaren: "In Search of Ekonomi Pancasila"

Thursday, March 18, 2004
Conference Presentations at the Center for Korean Studies, UHM

9:30 am-11:30 am (refreshments available) Viewing Culture Through Literature

Mayumi Hisamoto: "Oni in Konjaku Monogatari"

Chan Lee: "Ferrying Nine Times in One Night: An Ethnographical Travel of Pak Chiwon, 1737-1805"

Hisayo Suzuki: "Takeda Taijun's Despairing Turns in Luzhou Landscape and On Destruction"

Kaoru Villa: "The Intertextuality of Akutagawa Ryunosuke's Kappa and Yanagida Kunio's Santo mintan-shu: The Overlooked Connection between a Modern Japanese Novel and a Minor Folklore Text"

12:15 pm-2:15 pm International Affairs and Power Relations

Renny Babiarz: "Towards a New Foreign Policy"

Lisa Rickmers: "NGOs, Local Ownership, and Peace Building in East Timor"

Michael Sprunger: "Policing Colonial Korea: A Genealogy of Kyongch'al"

2:30 pm-5:00 pm Intercultural Narratives in Art and Performance

Rachel Farkas: "Memory in Contemporary Chinese Painting"

Jennifer Goodlander: "Sitting on the Petals on Noh: Strindberg's The Ghost Sonata as an Exploration of Directing East / West Fusion"

Jennie Lake: "Cultural Cartography: Learning Asian Theatre at the University of Hawaii"

Melanie McKinney: Narrative and Tradition: Korea Dance Studios in Hawai'i

Ka Wong: "Entanglements of Ethnographic Images: Torii Ryuzo's Photographic Record of Taiwan Aborigines, 1896-1900"